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T R Miles

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PubMed2006

Verbatim and gist recall of sentences by dyslexic and non-dyslexic adults.

Forty-eight college students, 24 of them dyslexic, were presented with four sentences of increasing complexity. Participants were asked to repeat each sentence and a record was kept of the number of repetitions required before 100% correct accuracy was achieved. None of the 24 control participants required a total of more than eight repetitions over the four sentences, whereas among the dyslexics the total number of repetitions needed ranged from one to 25. Dyslexic participants were unpredictable in their performance from one level of difficulty to the next and inter-individual variability was far greater in the dyslexic group than in the control group. Overall, despite their relatively poor performance in achieving verbatim accuracy relative to non-dyslexic participants, dyslexic individuals regularly managed to preserve the gist of the sentences. Some theoretical issues arising from these results are discussed.

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A pictographic method for teaching spelling to Greek dyslexic children.

In the Greek orthography every letter consistently represents the same sound, but the same sound can be represented by different letters or pairs of letters. This makes spelling more difficult than reading. Two methods of teaching spelling to Greek dyslexic children are compared. The first involved pictograms (specially drawn pictures) for use when alternative spellings are possible. This is referred to as the 'PICTO' method. The second was in effect a combination of two traditional methods: the first involved the teaching of letter-sound correspondences in a multisensory way; the second involved the use of concepts derived from linguistics, the children being taught the derivations of words and shown how the same root morphemes, derivative morphemes, etc., were cosistently represented by the same spelling pattern. This combination of methods is referred to as 'TRAD', signifying 'traditional'. There were 72 subjects in the study, aged between 9 and 11 years. Four different teachers, each using both PICTO and TRAD, took part in the teaching sessions. The PICTO method proved considerably more effective; and possible reasons are suggested as to why this might be so.

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